I have met several times people who say, “If the specifications are fixed, it doesn’t matter who implements it,” and I don’t think I will ever understand them. I feel sorry for engineers who work for companies where people with this kind of perception hold important positions in the company. In the movie “matrix” (1999), there’s a quote that says, “there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. In the same way, “knowing the specification and actually implementing it are two different things. --- For engineers who want to start their own business someday
relevance - one must see with one’s own eyes / one must create one’s own eyes.
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